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Week 6: INFORMATION LOSS AND MISREPRESENTATION WHEN PRESENTING INFORMATION IN DIFFERENT MODALITIES.

The lecture and seminar will be led by Gill Whitney.

Gill Whitney

School of Computing Science

Middlesex University

The advent of many new multi-media devices mean that information is theoretically available to us whenever we need it in the format that we need it but is that the case. The aim of this session is to look at the effect on the content of information when that information is presented in different formats, in different contexts and in different locations. To do this the talk will look at the use and design requirements of some of the newer mobile devices. It will also look at information that has been learnt in the past from the fields of visual and hearing impairment where the need and effects of changing the modality of information presentation is well known.
Further Information: The following four papers/articles provide an insight into some of the issues with respect to the transfer of information from one method of presentation to another.
  1. Accessible Tesco from nightmare to nirvana, Peter Abrahams , Practice Leader, Bloor Research, Published: 26th January, 2006, Copyright © 2006 Bloor Research http://www.it-director.com/content.php?articleid=13119 This article briefly describes the new accessible Tesco web site, a site that has been designed to work in parallel to the main site and be accessible to both visually impaired screen reader users and users of mobile Internet devices.
  2. 2) The Future of Mobile Devices, Marco Susani, Director Advanced Concepts Design Group, Motorola (USA), 7th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, University of Salzburg, Austria. http://mobilehci.icts.sbg.ac.at/keynote.htm http://mobilehci.icts.sbg.ac.at/impressions-videos.htm In these videos Marco Susani describes why he believes that "Mobile Interaction cannot be isolated from its context. While this interaction between a user and a personal computer tends to be immersive and central, the interaction with mobile devices is typically contextual and peripheral."
  3. 3) Turing Lecture Review, Review Darren Lunn, Eleni Michailidou, University of Manchester, School of Computer Science The IEE/BCS Turing Lectures 2006, "Lifestyle access for the disabled - adding positive drift to the random walk with technology" by Chris Mairs, Data Connection Ltd Chris Mairs has triumphantly overcome severe inherited eye disease to create outstandingly successful business software. This review of his talk gives an overview of some of the issues surrounding the use of assistive technology. http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/img/Turing.pdf
  4. 4) Universal Interfaces to Multimedia Documents Fourth IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'02) p. 319, Helen Petrie et al Electronic documents theoretically have great advantages for people with print disabilities, although currently this potential is not being realized. This paper reports research to develop multimedia documents with universal interfaces which can be configured to the needs of people with a variety of print disabilities which will also be relevant for users of non-standard output devices. http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/icmi/2002/1834/00/1834toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/ICMI.2002.1167015